Time Zones quotes

Time Zones

31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Steve Martin
Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer

"Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it."

Kerry King
Kerry King Musician

"It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better."

Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton Poet, Author

"I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones."

Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian

"North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'"

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Norman Ralph Augustine Business Executive
Time Zones

"Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics."

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